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The work described in this paper explores the use of time and synchronized clocks in centrally-managed and Software Defined Networks (SDNs). One of the main goals of this work is to analyze use cases in which explicit use of time is…
This paper deals with congestion control in a software defined network (SDN) setting. Presently, explicit router schemes, such as Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), work in conjunction with the TCP protocol to handle congestion in a…
As required by Industry 4.0, companies will move towards flexible and individual manufacturing. To succeed in this transition, convergence of 5G and time-sensitive networks (TSN) is the most promising technology and has thus attracted…
An increasing bandwidth demand has mandated a shift to the time and wavelength division multiplexing (TWDM) techniques in optical access networks (OAN). Typical TWDM scheduling schemes consider scheduling of the optical line terminal…
The IEEE Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Task Group (TG) was created to provide Ethernet with soft real-time guarantees. Later on, the TG was renamed to Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and its scope broadened to support hard real-time and…
The use of Ethernet switched networks usually involves best effort service. A recent effort by the IEEE 802.1/3 TSN group has sought to standardize the Ethernet data-link protocol such that it operates on a deterministic service in addition…
Emerging industrial applications involving robotic collaborative operations and mobile robots require a more reliable and precise wireless network for deterministic data transmission. To meet this demand, the 3rd Generation Partnership…
In safety-critical systems, timing accuracy is the key to achieving precise I/O control. To meet such strict timing requirements, dedicated hardware assistance has recently been investigated and developed. However, these solutions are often…
The integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) and terrestrial networks (TNs) is fundamental for extending connectivity to rural and underserved areas that lack coverage from traditional cellular infrastructure. However, this…
Time-Aware Shaper (TAS) is a time-triggered scheduling mechanism that ensures bounded latency for time-critical Scheduled Traffic (ST) flows. The Linux kernel implementation (a.k.a TAPRIO) has limited capabilities due to varying CPU…
In this paper, we mainly investigate an integrated system operating under a software defined network (SDN) protocol. SDN is a new networking paradigm in which network intelligence is centrally administered and data is communicated via…
Modern manufacturing systems must meet hard delivery deadlines while coping with stochastic task durations caused by process noise, equipment variability, and human intervention. Traditional deterministic schedules break down when reality…
In Time-Triggered (TT) or time-sensitive networks, the transmission of a TT frame is required to be scheduled at a precise time instant for industrial distributed real-time control systems. Other (or {\em best-effort} (BE)) frames are…
Virtualization of distributed real-time systems enables the consolidation of mixed-criticality functions on a shared hardware platform thus easing system integration. Time-triggered communication and computation can act as an enabler of…
Short time after the official launch of WiFi 6, IEEE 802.11 working groups are already designing its successor in the wireless local area network (WLAN) ecosystem: WiFi 7. With the IEEE 802.11be amendment as one of its main constituent…
In temporal planning, many different temporal network formalisms are used to model real world situations. Each of these formalisms has different features which affect how easy it is to determine whether the underlying network of temporal…
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is expected to be a key component of critical machine-type communication networks in areas such as Industry 4.0, robotics and autonomous vehicles. With rising mobility requirements in industrial applications…
Different scheduling mechanisms in Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) can be integrated together to design and support complex architectures with enhanced capabilities for mixed critical networks. Integrating Frame Preemption (FP) with…
With the development of 5G, innovative applications requiring bounded transmission delays and zero packet loss emerge, e.g., AR, industrial automation, and smart grid. In this circumstance, time-sensitive networking (TSN) is proposed, which…
Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level…